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I Believe In Mystery And, Frankly, I Sometimes Face This Mystery With Great Fear. In Other Words, I Think That There Are Many Things In The Universe That We Cannot Perceive Or Penetrate, And That Also We Experience Some Of The Most Beautiful Things In Life Only In A Very Primitive Form. Only In Relation To These Mysteries Do I Consider Myself To Be A Religious Man.

-Albert Einstein

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I Believe In Mystery

Albert Einstein

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I Believe In Mystery And, Frankly, I Sometimes Face This Mystery With Great Fear. In Other Words, I Think That There Are Many Things In The Universe That We Cannot Perceive Or Penetrate, And That Also We Experience Some Of The Most Beautiful Things In Life Only In A Very Primitive Form. Only In Relation To These Mysteries Do I Consider Myself To Be A Religious Man.

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Vegetarian Diet

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The World Is In Greater Peril From Those Who Tolerate Or Encourage Evil Than From Those Who Actually Commit It.

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One Scientific Epoch Ended And Another Began With James Clerk Maxwell.

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Any Government Is Evil If It Carries Within It The Tendency To Deteriorate Into Tyranny. The Danger Of Such Deterioration Is More Acute In A Country In Which The Government Has Authority Not Only Over The Armed Forces But Also Over Every Channel Of Education And Information.

The Difference Between Stupidity And Genius Is That Genius Has Its Limits.

All Conditions And All Circumstances In Our Lives Are A Result Of A Certain Level Of Thinking. If We Want To Change The Conditions And Circumstances, We Have To Change The Level Of Thinking That Is Responsible For It.

The Problems Of Today Can Only Be Solved At A Higher Level Of Thinking Than That Which Created Them

The Most Beautiful Gift Of Nature Is That It Gives One Pleasure To Look Around And Try To Comprehend What We See.

When You Examine The Lives Of The Most Influential People Who Have Ever Walked Among Us, You Discover One Thread That Winds Through Them All. They Have Been Aligned First With Their Spiritual Nature And Only Then With Their Physical Selves.

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The Right To Search For Truth Implies Also A Duty.

Search For Truth

Without Changing Our Pattern Of Thought, We Will Not Be Able To Solve The Problems We Created With Our Current Patterns Of Thought

The Enormous Mental Resilience, Without Which No Chess Player Can Exist, Was So Much Taken Up By Chess That He Could Never Free His Mind Of This Game

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